Minor hypertrophic cardiomyopathy genes, major insights into the genetics of cardiomyopathies

R Walsh, JA Offerhaus, R Tadros… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was traditionally described as an autosomal dominant
Mendelian disease but is now increasingly recognized as having a complex genetic …

Towards precision medicine in heart failure

CS Weldy, EA Ashley - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
The number of therapies for heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction has nearly
doubled in the past decade. In addition, new therapies for HF caused by hypertrophic and …

Linear and nonlinear Mendelian randomization analyses of the association between diastolic blood pressure and cardiovascular events: the J-curve revisited

M Arvanitis, G Qi, DL Bhatt, WS Post, N Chatterjee… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Recent clinical guidelines support intensive blood pressure treatment targets.
However, observational data suggest that excessive diastolic blood pressure (DBP) …

An atlas of gene regulatory elements in adult mouse cerebrum

YE Li, S Preissl, X Hou, Z Zhang, K Zhang, Y Qiu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The mammalian cerebrum performs high-level sensory perception, motor control and
cognitive functions through highly specialized cortical and subcortical structures. Recent …

Cardiac cell type–specific gene regulatory programs and disease risk association

JD Hocker, OB Poirion, F Zhu, J Buchanan, K Zhang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Misregulated gene expression in human hearts can result in cardiovascular diseases that
are leading causes of mortality worldwide. However, the limited information on the genomic …

Functional dynamic genetic effects on gene regulation are specific to particular cell types and environmental conditions

AS Findley, A Monziani, AL Richards, K Rhodes… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Genetic effects on gene expression and splicing can be modulated by cellular and
environmental factors; yet interactions between genotypes, cell type, and treatment have not …

Assessing the role of rare genetic variation in patients with heart failure

G Povysil, O Chazara, KJ Carss, SVV Deevi… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Sequencing studies have identified causal genetic variants for distinct subtypes
of heart failure (HF) such as hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy. However, the role of …

Single-cell sequencing reveals lineage-specific dynamic genetic regulation of gene expression during human cardiomyocyte differentiation

R Elorbany, JM Popp, K Rhodes, BJ Strober… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Dynamic and temporally specific gene regulatory changes may underlie unexplained
genetic associations with complex disease. During a dynamic process such as cellular …

Genetic architecture of heart failure with preserved versus reduced ejection fraction

J Joseph, C Liu, Q Hui, K Aragam, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pharmacologic clinical trials for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction have been
largely unsuccessful as compared to those for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction …

Functional genomics in stroke: current and future applications of iPSCs and gene editing to dissect the function of risk variants

A Granata - BMC cardiovascular disorders, 2023 - Springer
Stroke is an important disease with unmet clinical need. To uncover novel paths for
treatment, it is of critical importance to develop relevant laboratory models that may help to …